2. Don’t let your managers schedule employees for six hour shifts with no meal breaks. It is just too risky that they will work more than six hours (even by just a few minutes) and not get a meal break. Instead schedule them for a five or five and a half hour shift and make sure they have waived in writing their right to a meal break for shifts six hours or less.

3.If you don’t have an arbitration agreement with a class action waiver, consider one. While the courts are still debating the issue, it still gives you leverage in negotiating to get a matter resolved.

4. Review your vendor agreements and make sure they actually provide the protections you think you have.

6.Regular rate issues for overtime compensation are still one of the hottest issues in wage-and-hour litigation, and one of the hardest to get right and defend. Take a look at all of your non-discretionary compensation and make sure you are correctly including all of it in your overtime rate. Remember, your payroll company takes direction from you, so if you haven’t instructed them correctly, do not assume the rate is right.

7.Remember that protections for pregnant, post-pregnant and lactating women are ever expanding, so proceed with caution before denying any requested accommodation, and be sure to document the steps taken to engage in the interactive process.

8.Don’t voluntarily give employee time records, schedules and time punch edit reports when a current or former employee requests personnel and pay records. Instead provide pay stubs and the personnel file, and wait and see if anything else is requested.